Product Description
This volume of proceedings contains papers from the Tolkien Society Hybrid Seminar 2023.
Published under the auspices of the Society’s Peter Roe Memorial Fund, this proceedings features a collection of eleven papers delivered at the Tolkien Society Hybrid Seminar 2023.
Contents
Introduction
Will Sherwood
Sea Goddess Worship and the Power of the King: Parallel between Aldarion, Uinen, Mataram Sultanate, and Javanese Queen of the Southern Sea
Putri Prihatini
Penguasa Laut dan Sang Raja: Paralel antara Aldarion, Uinen, Kesultanan Mataram, dan Ratu Laut Selatan Jawa
Putri Prihatini
Dealing with the Dead: Nuances of ancient Egypt and medieval theology in Númenor
Irina Metzler
“I often dream of it”: Trauma and memory in the legacy of the Downfall of Númenor
S.R. Westvik
“Foretasting Death in Life”: Desire, the Fall, and Attempting to Return the ‘Gift’ of Ilúvatar
Sara Brown
“All roads are now bent”: Ethical Readings of the Corporeality of Númenor
Journee Cotton
Ecology of Imperialism: Environmental History for Númenor
Muhammed Alpaslan Tandırcı
The ‘Akallabêth’ and the Anthropocene: Myth, Ecology, and the Changing of the World
Erik Jampa Andersson
Monstrous (Im)mortality: Transhumanism and Ecocriticism in ‘Akallabêth’
Kristine Larsen
“By the Waters of Anduin We Lay Down and Wept”: Exilic Theology in the ‘Akallabêth’
Rev. Tom Emanuel
Seducer-Destroyer: Sauron’s Femme Fatale Sources and their Role in the Númenor Narrative
Mercury Natis
Elmar, the Experience of Captured Women, and Empires in Decline
Clare Moore
Additional Details
Publication Date: 25 November 2025
Publisher: Luna Press Publishing
Language: English
ISBN for print book: 978-1-915556-16-5
Page Numbers: 206
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